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In reply to the discussion: Laurence Tribe : the Senate can't require the House, to "immediately" whatever is [View all]Cuthbert Allgood
(4,916 posts)You have been making the claim that it doesn't matter if the House sends the Articles; the Senate can just start the trial. That is patently not true. The Senate rules, the Constitution, pretty much every Constitutional scholar says your point is not true.
If we are now going to talk about whether the Senate needs to be impartial, that's a different argument all together. It's not coming full circle.
Unless you are saying that the House can't withhold for that reason. I don't believe it matters what the reason is for them withholding it. The trial can't start until they send the Articles to the Senate.
It's not a fallacy to use an authority as a claim. And I have seen you use ZERO authorities that say the opposite about the Senate being able to start the formal trial without the House delivering the Articles. I'll wait for that, though. And I would also argue that if you do happen to find someone saying what you are saying, the quality of the authority becomes important. I can find some random asshole saying whatever I want on the Internet. I have Tribe supporting my claim. I'm pretty confident in that.